grimmoired | CHAPTER FIVE ; TRIAL

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CHAPTER 5 - WEEK 523 Narrators Remain ;

Wakey wakey, naughty murder children. It's a lovely Saturday, after all. Breakfast is served piping hot at its usual time and all of the evidence has been removed from the scenes of yesterday. No matter how you choose to spent your morning though, the clock will begin to chime the moment both hands reach the large, ornate twelve.

Before your eyes materializes a door...but not just any door. Unlike the door leading to the festival, this door sits primly and properly right in front of the foyer. Whether you exit the castle on your own or you feel a friendly, invisible push, you begin to walk under an arc of wisterias. Behind you, the clock continues to chime with every step you take.

By the time the time the clock strikes twelve, you've entered a beautiful garden. In front of you is a long table, 19 seats on each side. Around the garden are several glass cases containing evidence collected yesterday. As noon intensifies on the sun-shaped clock, you'll find Dragon at the head of the table, a glass-covered rose near her right hand.

Tick tock, Narrators. You have nine hours to deliberate.

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That's what I'm wondering.

[ The smile on Zelos' face is sharp. In case you didn't know, this method of expressing emotion is by being a flaming asshole (more than usual) ]

Congrats to whichever one of you jerks missed this.

[ he speaks a little louder, addressing the crowd more than Nico ]

You really screwed the pooch on this one!

[ yeah, he's mad ]

And you, you weren't involved either! People who didn't help at all shouldn't say shit!

[Is Dazai upset? Dazai's upset, much more than before he realized it was Reyna missing.]

Just because I didn't find anything doesn't mean I wasn't out there— let's get something straight.

[ he shrugs ~~also my ass was at dinner BUT~~ ]

By that logic the people who really fucked this one up weren't much help either. Besides, even with one whole eye I'd be hard pressed to miss a body— maybe we should start weekly vision tests, hm?

As long as you're blaming yourself too for missing her.

[She could have been in a location nothing was found in. It's not impossible.]

[ at that he frowns, flinching a little. ]

My Reyna-induced self-loathing started way before one of these jerks missed her body, that I promise you.

Would you focus?

[TUGGING HIS HAIR, DEAR FUCKIN GOD]

Leave him be, we gotta figure out what happened to Reyna-chan!

[ Zelos' head jerks back when Sanji grabs him, smile giving way to a frown. ]

Shut up.

[ translators note: he knows that and he is on the verge of having one (1) emotion so leave him alone, is what he means. ]

[WITHERING GLANCE???

Bastard he gets it, just behave for literally two seconds?? Sanji's begging you to use that energy for a good cause.]

Yeah, yeah.

[ Zelos Yan-Tsun-Slut Wilder? Use his negative energy for a good cause?

He would laugh if he wasn't so weary.

But hey, maybe he'll try for you Sanji.

Maybe. ]

[They can be mad together?? Thank god for Zelos (god what a weird sentence.)

But Nico does give Zelos a semi-sympathetic and semi-grateful look. It doesn't last too long though.]

...she has to be somewhere we can reach her, doesn't she? Otherwise they wouldn't provide a case for her.

[Sanji is staring into the void like he hopes this fuckin garden goes up in flames, but.]

I'm assuming, yeah.

[wiping his brow]

Eichi and I were in the kitchen and we checked that shit pretty thoroughly...

Someone was definitely there last night, though.

[There's something almost laughable about Sanji investigating the kitchen again, but he doesn't even crack a smile. Instead, he watches him with wide eyes as he tries to grasp what he's saying.]

What exactly was found in the kitchen?

Nothing too extreme.

The faucet was running and there were breadcrumbs around.

[...]

But you know me. I keep that shit as clean as I can, and I keep inventory of everything. So I know someone must've been in there last night, even after I had left for the night.

Oh- Magnus found something like that: a little bottle with wet bread inside. So that was on purpose.

... The fuck is someone going around wasting food--

[FOCUS SANJI]

Where did you find the vial? In the water?

On the ground outside of it, covered in mud and stuff.

[ He probably would've stepped on it and broken it but thankfully, Magnus got to it first. ]

Was there anything else in that vial?

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Okay but why was there wet bread inside a bottle?

I dunno, but if they went through all the trouble of making it, they wouldn't have just dropped it there, right? Maybe there were more of them and they dropped this one? Or it already did what it was supposed to do...?

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I know. [He can't claim to know Sanji that well but he knows that much.] It also means it was someone who was careless and didn't think to check the finer details before they left. Probably someone who's never killed someone before.

[ His grin leaves his face in an instant when Nico addresses him ]

From what I'm hearing yeah. More than finding whoever did this— she deserves better than floating around who knows where.

[ .. ]

You alright, kid?

Yeah. She really does, and I want to do everything to make sure she gets it. [...there's no verbal response though given he sort of just stares at Zelos. He hasn't slept since Wednesday and his older sister's dead and missing.]

Are you?

[ Ah, right, noted. If he makes it out of this without convincing someone to midtrial murder him for being an asshole, he's gonna make it a point to force this kid to get some sleep. Anyway, to Nico's question he shrugs again. ]

Well, frankly— I wasn't alright even before I got here.

[ ... ]

We'll find who did it, one way or another.

[A thin smile.] Then I suppose you and I have more in common than I thought.

[...still.] Thank you, Zelos. [For helping, for bothering to care about her, everything. He doesn't think this needs an elaboration though.]

[ There is nothing about this interaction that doesn't make him feel more vulnerable than he'd like to be.

But considering the circumstances. he at the very least offers Nico a smile. Small, but genuine. ]